And God said, “Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the heavens.” So God created the great sea creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarm, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. And God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.” And there was evening and there was morning, the fifth day. Genesis 1:20-23

Window from St. Paul's Episcopal Church-Salinas' Creation series

How intriguing our world is with its hosts of swarming creatures, its flocks of birds with myriads of shapes and songs, its seas monsters that plough the deeps. How harmonious it is that fish continue to swim upstream to spawn and birds fly south for the winter, that pelicans don’t reproduce dolphins and whales don’t try to ascend into the air beyond their breaching.

How gracious it is that birds and butterflies multiply to fill the earth with every hue and tint imaginable. How amazing the fruitfulness of spawning fish! How sweet and faithful the trilling of the birds! How astonishing the diversity of bugs and beetles—all necessary for their particular functions in the harmon of creation!

O come, let us worship.
We praise You, Creator, for all that is good.

Marva J. Dawn, In the Beginning, God, pg 38-39.